The Fostering Excellence in Biostatistics Workshop is a day-long workshop that has been held at the ENAR Spring Meeting since 1999. Its goal is to encourage more quantitatively skilled early-career scholars from broad-ranging backgrounds to pursue degrees in Biostatistics and foster their active participation and contributions to the field. Workshop activities include career and graduate school panels, roundtable discussions, breakout sessions on scientific writing and R coding, and many opportunities for networking and outreach. The Workshop has primarily provided travel support for undergraduate students to attend, while including high school students, current graduate students in (bio)statistics programs, as well as faculty members from various institutions including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Native American Tribal Colleges, and other professionals from industry and governmental agencies who may serve as mentors to the students. The Workshop has become so popular that for the past several years demand has well exceeded available spaces of approximately 100 per offering.
